276 THE PYGMY HOG CHAP. 
Major is disposed to reduce them to four if not to fewer species. 
He allows the widely-ranging S. scrofa, S. vittatus, and the 
eastern Malayan S. verrucosus and S. barbatus. 
The Pygmy Hog of the Bhotans seems. to be not entitled to 
specific rank, certainly not to generic (in the opinion of some), 
though it has been termed Porcula salvania.! The Wild Boar of 
Fic. 142.—Pygmy Hog (from Nature). Sus salvania. x}. 
Europe is Sus serofa. It was formerly quite abundant in this 
country ; not merely are its remains exhumed from fens, caves 
and peat bogs, but there is ample evidence of its continuance 
down to a comparatively late historic period. Enactments are 
on record as to the hunting of these animals; there are places, 
such as Boarstall, whose names are clearly derived from the 
name of the animal, presumably once a native of the locality ; 
and various documents all show the presence of the Wild Boar 
' Dr. Garson has investigated its anatomy, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 413, and 
states that its differences from Sus are ‘‘ unimportant and few,” 
